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ByteDance
ByteDance opened a micro-drama factory, and here is how to use it
The studio lives inside Jimeng, which is China-only today, but the pipeline it automates and the models underneath it are reachable from outside through Dreamina and the Seedance 2.5 API. A step-by-step guide to making a 60-episode vertical drama, from premise to cost sheet.
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Seedance 2.0 Pro tops HKU AI video study, sixth on safety
The HKU Business School lab rated 12 models on six generation dimensions and 11 on safety, using 71 Chinese-language generation prompts, 47 safety prompts and 20 human raters.
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ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 goes 4K for film and television
Volcano Engine says extra training improves facial expressions and small text, and a 480p Draft mode lets teams storyboard before the final 4K render.
AXE
AXE's shelved 2021 subway spot returns as a 48-shot AI film
Director Cassandra Brooksbank rebuilt it with ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 on Absurd, where she helps run commercials, so the spot doubles as a demo.
AI film awards
The 5 AI film awards that pay the most, led by Dubai's $1M
Dubai's second $1M AI Film Award closes entries on November 20, and it is the only award on this list that requires one specific video model.
Merry the Christmas Witch
Merry the Christmas Witch cost $1.5M to make with AI
Director Tom Walsh says the AI-assisted film, based on Bobbi Hess's 2012 children's book, has no distributor and was made by about 50 people.
Artlist
AI series The Arc cost $38,000 in AI credits for 83 minutes
The five-episode series averaged about $7,600 in credits per episode, with scenes generated mainly with Seedance and Kling and eight to 10 generations per shot.
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Runway now sells rival models inside OpenAI's Marketplace
Luma AI cut the credit rates it charges for ByteDance's Seedance models on Dream Machine, a reduction the outlet ChatPicture put at as much as 73 percent.
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Wan 3.0 tops AI video's blind Elo leaderboard
Google's Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 sits eighth at Elo 1116, as of October 2, 2026, on an updated board that pins Kling 3.0 Pro at 1000.
deepfakes
Bangkok flood catfish video is AI-made, fact-check finds
The clip spread on X and Instagram during real flooding that killed at least 23 people in Thailand, and a detection tool rated it 97% synthetic.
ByteDance
Report: ByteDance is building a real-time 20 fps Seedance model
Anonymous sources told Bloomberg that founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the project and a launch could come as soon as October; ByteDance has not commented and nothing is confirmed.
Reply AI Film Festival
Grok-and-Seedance short wins Reply AI Film Festival in Venice
Canadian filmmaker Robert Gaudette's A Face Only A Mother Could Love, also made with Nano Banana, beat more than 3,000 entries, while Jiaze Li's Website took the Reply AI Studios Grand Prix.